Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-25
POINTS.
Swollen Streams and Bad ROads-Pub'
lie Improyement-An Interesting Min
ing Suit, Etc.

ing Suit, Etc.
P~H1LIPsBuRe, June 21.-[Special Core
%spondence OF The Miner. -Philipsburg is
enjoying q steady. healthy growth, and
the feeling among it's residents is that oil
unbounded faith in the great future OF this
magnificent and vast mining section While
| what may be termed q big boom has not
yet reached us. the improvement has been
continuous, with but little Interruption,
save on account Of the extreme difficulty
in passenger and freight traffic. The roads
in all directions-particularly between
here and Drummond and Anaconda-are
in a most deplorable condition. The i'm
mense quantities of snow that bave fallen
during the past winter and has been
banked up in all the gulches and ravines is
melting fast and
COMING DOWN IN sTREAMs.
The recent rains have added no small
quota to the general disagreeableness of
the situation. Happily this state of al
fairs will not last much longer. The rail.
road is nearly all graded. with the excep-
ton OF q few places flooded with water
from Flint creek and tributary streams.
The rails have arrived at Drummond ere
this. and it will be but q short time before
Philipsburg has the rOn horse stopping at
her door and depositing the much-needed
fright for those engaged in the develop
ment OF her resources. Notwithstanding
this interruption. the
GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT
Of both Philipsburg and Granite are notice.
able in every direction. New buildings are
in the course of construction and quite q
number of new business enterprises are be-
ing entered into. Real estate transfers are
numerous and On the increase. 1t is quite
q difficult matter to secure a piece of prop
erty on Broadway, as the owners OF the
same are holding for the purpose of build
ing as soon at brick and lumber can be OBJ
tanned. A number of property-owners are
excavating and laying foundations, being
considerably inconvenienced by the utter
impossibility of procuring material. Addi-
tioEs to the town site are being laid out
and surveyed, and lots are commanding
THE MINES
are all in the best of condition. The Gran
tie Mountain is turning out it's regular
shipments OF the white metal and, it is
claimed, the output will be nearly if not
quite doubled when the new mill the COM
pany have in contemplation is erected.
The Hope ten-stamp mill is running steadi-
~ on rich ores from the mines las it has
been doing for the better part of the past
twenty years.. They contemplate begin
ming work on another valuable claim be-
longing to the company. Other mines IN
the vicinity are doing nicely.
4 VERY INTERESTING CAS-
lie going on here. The Granite Mountain
company have applied for a patent to the
Midland claim, adjoining the James G..
Blaine on the north and the Granite Noun
tain extension on the west. John L. Mar.
tin is protesting against the issuance of The
patent, claiming to have relocated the
ground in 1886, and that the Granite
Mountain failed to do the amoun of work
required by law. The dispositions OF a
multitude of witnesses are now being taken
before q notary public, to be forwarded to
the lane Office. The town is full oil legal
talent from Helena and considerable inter-
est il manifested as to the result.